As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. During my cross-country farm tour last fall, I stopped by Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) in Iowa and was overwhelmed by their amazing heirloom seed collection and the many other resources that they … Read More
My new book, Homegrown and Handmade, second edition, comes out next month, and I’m incredibly honored that farmer extraordinaire Joel Salatin wrote the Foreword. ~~ Deborah by Joel Salatin “What can I do?” The question encompasses both the angst and … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. You’ve likely heard about declining bee populations, but do you know why they are declining? In Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture, Ross Conrad explains that some of the reasons for declining … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I keep hearing more and more about gluten allergies. In fact, I learned in Restoring Heritage Grains that over the past 60 years, gluten allergies and celiac disease have become at least four times … Read More
When I wrote the second edition of Homegrown and Handmade, I just could not let the book get reprinted again without adding all of the things that I wished I had put in the first one — like making maple … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I was originally drawn to Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions because I am planning to raise pigs, but it turns out you really can’t judge a book … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I recently moved and now have space for many more do-it-yourself (DIY) projects compared to my previous city apartment. Well, now I’ve added even more to my to-do list after reading The Permaculture … Read More
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Within hours of starting to read Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide, I had started a tincture and an infusion. It is one of my favorite herbal books for beginners, … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I’ve been hearing more and more about homesteaders and farmers growing mushrooms and was curious to find out what all the fuss is about. Though I love to eat mushrooms, I hadn’t … Read More
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. To continue “Chicken Week” on the blog, I wanted to write about Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks by Gail Damerow. I read this book last spring as part of a … Read More
Thrifty Homesteader was created in 2012 after the publication of my second book, Ecothrifty. The name was coined by one of my followers because I said that I didn’t want anyone to think that they had to be rich to homestead or live a greener life....
